August 2023 Monthly Update (Patreon)

Hello lovely patrons!

I hope you all had a great July! We kept pretty busy the last month and had a lot of progress across our games.

Anyway, on to the update:

Dreambound

Art

We finished up with Ivan's teenage sprite this month! Sinran is now working on his second last CG before we move on to the final 5 Kaine route CGs. It feels good to be so close!

We'll be working on the Secret Route DLC CGs post-release.

Here's a little look at a sprite we'll be posting this month:

He looks so lil and cute.

Writing

The last route to be completed, Ivan's, is currently half written! Not much left to go, then we'll be going over to edit and polish up the scenes.

A preview of the flashback for chapter 1 of Ivan's route, which are from his point of view:

In Crow's route, you will see the rest of August and Noah's story. In Ivan's you will see what lead him to the path he's on now, and in Kaine's you will see August and Noah's story but from his point of view. All three offer some nice insights into each character and are very different.

Programming

We've started work on programming Crow's route! We plan to do this alongside finishing the writing for Ivan's route. We hope to be able to release a beta with 2/3 of his chapters in either August or September.

Next month we'll have some screenshots to show off, too!

A Date with Death

You can wishlist A Date with Death on Steam NOW! This is one of the best ways to support our upcoming releases!

Art

We had some delays in the art front that should now be fixed, as Fuyuure has stepped in to the lead artist role! No need to worry about this affecting TDS games, as A Date with Death only needs a limited amount of art. We still intend to get the work done for upcoming TDS games in the background.

Here's a little preview of the Grim Reaper's sprite design. He's looking very bullyable.

Writing

We're currently writing the variations of the last day of the script, which includes all of the endings, as well as going back through to add additional conversations and choices all throughout the game.

A lot of our philosophy with A Date with Death is choice and defining the character you want to play. While you're in the "hehe I'm going to bully the grim reaper" side of the camp, there's still a lot of room within that to play different kinds of characters. We're aiming for a nice amount of replayability, which I hope you can feel when you get the chance to try the game.

TBA Nox and Soren Project

No work this month on writing/outlining for this, since we're waiting to be finished with the writing for Dreambound, but we have been working hard on the art side of things!

We already have 4-5 sprites complete for the game. Soren will be getting a brand new sprite, and so will Soren. Yes, both of them but separate... this should be interesting, huh.

The Divine Speaker: A Bounty Hunter's First Christmas

Leos' afterstory will be coming to Steam after a year of Patreon exclusivity! We really enjoyed being able to give all of you this way before everyone else.

We'll be working on more Patreon exclusive content and games to take it's place in the coming months.

If you want to help with the release, feel free to wishlist the game on Steam now!

Focus for the next month

Here's our focus for the next month:

• Dreambound - Writing, Ivan CGs, programming
• A Date with Death - Editing, writing and programming
• A Bounty Hunter's First Christmas - Submit build for approval with Steam

Thanks once again for reading, and I'll see you next month!